Newt is scaling back. Read below from Politico:
Newt Gingrich is cutting back his campaign schedule, will lay off about a third of his cash-strapped campaign’s full-time staff, and has replaced his manager as part of what aides are calling a “big-choice convention” strategy, communications director Joe DeSantis told Politico.
Michael Krull, a former advance man and a college friend of Callista Gingrich’s who took over the campaign after a staff exodus in June, was replaced last weekend by Vince Haley, who has worked for Gingrich for nine years and currently is deputy campaign manager and policy director.
“We’re focusing exclusively on what it’ll take to win what we’re going to be calling a big-choice convention in August,” DeSantis said in a phone interview Tuesday night.
Gingrich officials declined to specify who else besides Krull would be leaving.
“Not getting into it right now besides Krull,” DeSantis said.
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Newt Gingrich might be in this race until the GOP Convention in August but it’s clear that he’s becoming an afterthought at this point. Having said that who really thought Gingrich would have even gotten this far? It proves that intellect, ideas, and an uncanny ability to take on the media can get you pretty far.